Sheet-metal building structure



Feb. 19 1924. 1,484,398

B. KERBER SHEET METAL B UELDING STRUCTURE Filed Dec. 24. 1921 4Sheets-Sheet 1 B. KERBER SHEET METAL BUILDING STRUCTURE Feb. 19 192 4Filed Dec 24 1 921 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 "Feb. 19, 1924. 1,484,398

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Filed Dec. 24. 1921 4 SheetsSheet 4 Q 4 7 J v J Patented Feb. 19, 1924.4-

UNITED STATES PATENT orrlca.

BENJAMIN Kansas, or

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

SHEET-METAL BUILDING STRUCTURE Application tiled December 24, 1921.Serial No. 524,722

.- provide a novel means for efi'ecting a 010- sure between the wall androof-sheets; to provide a construction whereby an interior wall andceiling lining may readily be secured in place, and to also provide anovel arrangement of opening in the wall whereby the doors may be hungon one end wall and one side wall so they may meet at one corner of thebuilding whereby to provide a corner opening for entrance to and exitfrom the building.

With the above and other objects in view the invention is illustrated inthe accompanying drawings wherein,-

Fig. '1 shows the complete building structure' in perspective, in whichcertain of the features of the invention are embodied.

Fig. 2 illustrates an enlarged vertical sectional detail through thehorizontal doorhead, the roof-sheets and the interposed devices whichunite the same,-the section being taken through the roof-sheets on aline between the corrugations in the latter.

Fig. 3 shows another vertical section through the wall and roof-sheetsand also through the cave channel and shows the vertical lugs on thecave channel entering and closing the corrugation in the roof-sheet.

Fig. 4 illustrates a sectional erspective detail through the upper endsof the wallsheets, the cave-channel and the roof-sheets to show thejoint between the wall and roof.

Fig. 5 shows a horizontal sectional detail through the door-jamb andwall-sheets and also shows the lining on the interior of thewall-sheets.

Fig. 6 ilustrates another vertical section through the wall androof-sheets and also through the wall and ceiling lining.

Fig. 7 shows a vertical sectional detail through the sill and lower endsof the wallsheets at the floor and foundation, and

Fig. 8 illustrates an end edge view of one of the wall or roof sheets.

In constructing the building I first prepare a foundation of anysuitable material but preferably of concrete 10, (as shown in Fig. 7)and around this foundation I provide a sill-plate or angle-bar 11, whichlatter has an outwardly-projecting horizontal flange 12, and a verticalflange 13.

The walls and the roof are both formed of a series of plates orsections. Each of the wall plates or sections, as best shown in Figs. 4and 8, has a central corrugation 14 and a flat portion 15 at each sideof the central corrugation. ldach flat portion of the plate or sectionhas a portion of another corrugation formed along its longitudinal edgesuch portional corrugations comprising one complete inclined wall 16, acomplete flat crosswall 17, and a flange 18, which latter is inclined ina direction reversed to the inclination of the wall 16, as clearly shownin both Fig. 4 and Fig. 8 of the drawing.

The object in thus forming a portion of a corrugation on each of thelongitudinal edges of the wall and roof sheets is, that two sheets maybe placed side-by-side so that the portion of the corrugation on theedge of the one sheet will receive the similar portion of thecorrugation on the next sheet so that the two portions will lap withtheir flat crosswalls 17 in contact, as clearly shown in Figs.

4 and 5, and bolts 19, may then be passed through the lapped cross-walls17 so as to rigidly secure the two plates together.

It will thus be seen that when the two sheets, whether they be wallorroof-sheets,

are bolted together the flange 18 on the edge of one sheet will seatagainst the inclined wall 16 on the other sheet and the two interfittingcorrugation portions will form a weather-proof joint.

Moreover, it will be understood that in erectin a wall or when placingthe roofsheets 1n position, one sheet may simply be placed at the sideof another with the portional corrugations on the two edges lapped, andthen bolted together, instead of requiring the entire wall or entireroof structures to be locked together before putting them in place, asis necessary when the edge of one sheet is required to telescopicallyengage the edge of the next sheet.

Another feature which is common to both the wall and the roof sheets isthat at one end of each flat portion 15 between the central and edgecorrugations has a laterallyturned flange. The flange on the wall sheetbeing designated 20, while that on the roofsheets is designated 21,merely for the ,purpose of distinguishing the roof flange from the wallflange on the assembled views of the drawing.

The lower ends of the wall plates are seated on the horizontal flange 12of the sill or angle plate 11 and the plates are erected with thecorrugations projecting inwardly and seating against the vertical flange13 of the sill plate so that the same bolt 22, which unites the lowerends of the-lapped corrugations may be utilized to engage the sillflange 13 and hold the fiat cross-walls 17, of the corrugations seatedagainst said sill flange, as shown in Fig. 7 of the drawlach wall flange20, has a perforation 23 therein for a purpose that will presently be exlained.

11 top of the wall plates I provide a novel construction of eave channel24, which is shown in Figs. 234 and 6 of the drawings.

This eave channel has a down-turned flange 25, at the inner side of thewall and extends over the top edge of the wall-plates and has adown-turned flange 26 at its outer edge. This cave-channel straddles thetop edge of the wall with the flange 25, depending at the inner side andthe flange 26 depending at the outer side of the wall sheets.

The connecting portion of the eave-channel between the flanges 25 and 26seats on the top edge of the wall sheets and also seats on the flanges20 of those sheets, as best shown in Figs. 4 and 6 of the drawings andsaid connecting portion of the eave channel has a series of perforations27, which latter re ister with the perforations 23, in the wall-flanges20.

It will also be understood that the cave channel by seating on the upperedge of the wall and the wall flanges 20, will close the upper ends ofthe vertical corrugations in the wall plates and make a comparativelyclosed joint at the top of the wall.-

Another and novel feature in the wall structure resides in the use by meof a lug strip 28 on top of the eave channel which serves a usefulpurpose as will now be explained.

The lug strip 28 is best illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawing wherein itis shown seated on top of the cave channel with an upturned flange 29along its inner side and with a series of vertical lugs 30 extendingupwardly from said flange at spaced apart intervals. The spacing ofthese lugs 30 is such that they will register with the corrugations 31in the roof-sheets and by proa. see

jecting u wardly into said corrugations, as shown in ig. 3, effect aclosure of the latter from the inner side of the wall.

also register with and project up into the.

corrugations 31 of the roof sheets and effeet a closure of thosecorrugations from theouter side of the wall.

The lug-strip 28, is rigidly secured down on the upper side of the cavechannel by means of bolts 33.

The roof-sheets may have their upper ends secured to a ridge structurein any desired manner, butthey incline downwardly from the ridge andhave their lower ends rest ing upon the lug-strip 28 and also upon theconnecting portion of theeave channel so that bolts 34: may be passedthrough the roof plates then through the perforations 27 and 23 inthecave channel and the wall flanges respectively which will rigidly holdthe roof plates down.

The construction of wall hereinbefore described materially facilitatesthe attachment of an interior lining during or after the building iserected. This lining may consist of wall-board asbestos-board, metal orWood as preferred and as will now be explained.

On the top edge of the sill flange 13, I seat the lower edge of thelining. 35's0 that the outer face of the lining will seat against theinwardly-projecting corrugations of the wall plates, as shown in Figs.5, 6 and 7 of the drawings.

In practice the wall-sheets are of a size that the engaged edgecorrugations will be located, say about twenty-four inches apart or fromcenter to, center. The lining 35. will therefore preferably be formed inslabs of a width slightly less than twenty-four inches so they willextend from the corrugations at one edge of a sheet to the corrugationat the opposite edge of the same sheet,the adjacent edges of two liningslabs will thus terminate at opposite sides of the vertical row of bolts19 which are utilized to secure the corrugation joints, as shown in Fig.5 of the drawing.

By reference to Fig. 5, it will be noted that the bolts 19 have a nut 36which serves to clamp the flat faces 17 of the corrugations together andthat said bolt then is of suflicient length to project between theadjacent edges of the lining slabs and to extend on the inner side ofthe linings. To rigidl secure the lining slabs in place l provi e avertical clamping strip 37 on the inner side which is of sufficientwidth to overlap the edges of the two adjacent slabs and this stri 37,has. perforations through which the b0 t 19 may project so that a sec-0nd nut 38, may be screwed onto the inner end of the bolts and hold theclamping strip against the inner faces of the slabs.

When a ceiling is to be placed in the buildng I make use of a ceilingchannel strip 39, (shown in Fig. 6) which has a downturned flange 40which is interposed between the inner face of the wall lining and theclamping strip 37 so it may be clamped in place by the same nuts 38,that hold the upper end of the said clamping strip.

The ceiling lining sections 41 have their side edges 42 projecting intothe channel strip 39 which securely holds the same as clearly shown inFig. 6 of the drawing.

As doors must be provided in a building of this kind, and large doors.when the building is to be used as a garage, suitable reinforcementsaround the door-opening must be provided to produce a rigid andsubstantial structure.

By reference to Figs. 2 and 3 these structures will now be explained.

On the interior of the wall and adjacent to the upper horizontal edgethereof I provide a channel-bar 43, which is bolted at frequentintervals against the inner side of wall-plates and extends all the wayover the door-opening.

Directly what I term a over the door-opening I provide horizontaldoor-head 44, which comprises a wooden block or blocks covered withsheet-metal and having an'outwardly and downwardly-inclined flange 45,whereby to shed water and throw it outwardly.

The door-head 44, is rigidly secured in a horizontal position againstthe outer side of the wall over the door-opening, by means of long bolts46 which extend through the head and also through the channel-bar 43, asclearly shown in Fig. 2 ofthe drawing.

The metal covering of the door-head has 2. depending horizontal flange47 which forms a jamb-stop for the horizontal top rail of the door 48,as shown in Fig. 2.

For additional stiflening purposes I also employ. a stay-plate 49, whichis interposed between the door-head and the channelbar 43. I

Beneath the door-head and at each side of the door-opening I provide avertica door-jamb 50,. as shown in Fig. 5. This jamb comprises aninterior filler of wooden blocks or bars which are also covered withsheet-metal and which have a vertical groove 51, down the inner side inwhich the end flange 18 of the wall plate is engaged and then clamped inplace by means of horizontal bolts 52 which extend all the way throughfrom the outer to the inner side of the jamb.

The metal covering on the jamb 50, has

a vertical flange 53 formed thereon which also serves as a sto and aweather strip down the vertical e ge of the door.

1 the corrugations,

,It frequently happens in the erection of garage buildings that theoutlet from the garage is into a very narrow alley in which suflicientturn cannot be made to either enter or leave the garage. In someinstances this difliculty can be met by locating the garage on theproperty so as to be set back from the line of the alley, :but in manyinstances the lot is too short to permit the garage to be located backof the alley line but there is ample width to the lot.

To meet this emergency I have found that my channel-bar wall structureis such that I can form a door opening directly in the corner of thebuilding because the reinforcing channel bars 43, can be placed on theinner side of one end'wall 54, and also on one side wall 55 of thebuilding and the meeting ends of the bars will sufliciently' sup ort theroof at the-corner 56.

T is arrangement of corner door-opening is shown in Fig. 1, of thedrawing,--the wall and roof structure being the same as has beenhereinbefore described in connection with Fi s. 2-3 and4 of thedrawings. In the sai Fig. 1, it will be noted that one door 57 is hingedat 58, to one end wall 54, while the other door 59, is hinged at 60 toone side wall 55, so that when the doors are swung shut they will meeton the vertical corner 56.

By means of this arrangement of corneropening entrance to and exit fromthe garage through a very narrow alley can be readily eflected.

Having described my invention, I claim,-

1. In a sheet-metal building the combination with a corrugated wallstructure with lateral flanges at the upper edge between thecorrugations, of a corrugated roof having flat portions between itscorrugations which flat portions extend over the lateral flanges on theupper edges of the wall structure and fastening devices passin throughthe flat portions of the roof an the said lateral flanges of the wallstructure for holding the roof down. I

2. In a sheet-metal building the combination with a corrugated wallstructure with lateral flanges at the upper edge between ing flatportions between which flat portions extend over the lateral flanges onthe upper edges of the wall structure, a in strip'above the wallstructure said strip aving a row of spaced apartinner lugs and a row ofspaced apart outer lugs to enter the corrugations in the roof structureand fastening devices passing through the fiat portions of the roof andengagmg the lateral flanges on the wall structure to hold the roof downwith its corrugstions registering with the said lugs.

3.. a sheet-metal building the combina- .z wall structure with tion witha corrug of a corrugated roof hav- I its corrugations said strip havingupwardly-extending outer lateral flanges at the upper ed e between thecorrugations, of a corrugate roof having flat portions between itscorrugations which flat portions extend over the lateral flanges on theupper edges of the wall structure, a lug strip above the wall structurelugs at the other side,the inner lugs being higher than the outer lugsand said in- .jecting upwardly therefrom, corrugated roof sheetsextending over the lug-strip and cave channel with the corrugationsreceiving the lugs of the lug-strip and fasteni'ngs for holding theroof-sheets down on the lugstrip and cave-channel.

5. Ina sheet metal building the combination with a series of sheet-metalwall sections, of a channel-bar secured along the inner side and upperends of said wall-sections, at door-head on the outer side of the walland secured against the latter and to the channehbar, an cave-channelseated on top of the door head, a lug-strip on the eavechannel andcorrugated roof-sections pronests jecting over the lug-strip and theeave-channel. V

6. In a sheet-metal building the combination with a series ofsheet-metal wall sections, of a vertical door-jamb having a groove inits inner side,the wall-section adjacent to the jamb having a flange onits edge which enters said gamb-groove and-a an eave-ehannel seated onthe wall structureand of. sufficient width to straddle the corrugationsand the lateral edge-flanges on the wall structure, a lug-strip seatedon the cave-channel and having a series of acedapart lugs to enter thecorrugations 1n the roof structure, fastening means extending throughthe lug-strip and passing down through the cave channel in verticalplanes between the corrugations on the wall structure and otherfastening devices extending through the roof structure the cave-channeland the flanges on the wall end.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

